Scotland's premiere spoken word night LOUD POETS X ABERDEEN PERFORMING ARTS ABERDEEN HEAT MAE DIANSANGU SACRIFICIAL POET ARON SMITH BILLIE J. SIM EVE MUMFORD FINN MERCHANT FIONA ROBERTSON LUCY BETH MUSHI OCTAVIE DOHERY-HANGH RACHAEL BEEDIE SEUMAS DALE SID OZALID TISHE 27 MARCH LEMON TREE 7PM £5-£12 PAY WHAT YOU CAN ABERDEEN WWW.IAMLOUD.CO/SLAM

I'm competing in the I Am Loud poetry slam tomorrow night at the Lemon Tree - please come along and cheer me on!

It starts at 7pm and tickets start at £5.50 (if you want to pay more you can!)

I'd love to see you ❤️

www.aberdeenperformingarts.com/whats-on/lou...

Aberdeen! Friday! This is going to be electric. Tickets: www.aberdeenperformingarts.com/whats-on/lou...

Jhalak Prize: Prose Prize 2026 Longlist, in partnership with National Book Tokens

Very happy to celebrate two books on the Jhalak Prose Prize longlist today! Congratulations to Brian Chikwava & Katie Goh, whose respective novel Shamiso & hybrid memoir Foreign Fruit are longlisted!

Toni Morrison
Ali Smith
Octavia Butler
Elena Ferrante
Angela Carter

Is there any comfort in finding out every person that you thought was a wrong un is indeed a very, very wrong un? No, not really.

new Mitski album appearing on the hilltop like Gandalf on Shadowfax, but for lesbians going insane during fascist collapse

yeup, it's a dog eat dog world out there... not much for the rest of us to do, so mostly we bet on the dogs. is it a great world? of course not, it's covered in wild dogs fighting and eating each other across a landscape smeared with viscera and shit. but hell, i know i'd miss it if i ever left

Torry Residents Take the Stage With Their Own Story The new theatre show grew out of the fight over St Fittick’s Park.

Torry residents face losing St Fittick's Park to an Energy Transition Zone and they're fighting back.

A Play for Torry uses words from people who've watched industry reshape their neighbourhood for decades. Read why this fight turned into performance.

⭕ Now on POST

I feel like one of the most underrated explanations for what's happening right now in global politics is that almost everyone has lost their minds.

This Is It by William Letford Skint, baw ragged, poackets ful eh ma fingers, cannae afford tae burn toast an it’s November. Christmas is close. Av been away bit noo am back an ivery coarner is a different colour cause am hame an memories ur painted wae mischief. Am outside Gregs eatin a macaroni pie an a busker picks up eez guitar an plugs in eez amplifier. The sound fae the strings is like frost. Eez young an the dreams thit wur boarn in eez bedroom wake me up. Am watchin people passin an they know thit eez good bit they don’t want tae look. They turn thur heeds an tilt thur ears an jog on. If a hud a spare pound a wid throw it bit a don’t so a jist listen. I’d like tae tell um thit this is it, this is where the hammer hits the stane an sparks ur made, standin oan a corner in yur hame toon, an audience eh one radge eatin a macaroni pie, bit singin, wee man, yur singin.

Skint, baw ragged, poackets ful eh ma
fingers, cannae afford tae burn toast an
it’s November. Christmas is close…

—William Letford, “This is it”
Published in DIRT, @carcanet.bsky.social 2016
#poem #poetry
www.carcanet.co.uk/978178410200...

Vagrant Real Estate Brings 25 Scottish Artists Together for New Album. Neither Collar Nor Crown weaves folk traditions through hip-hop with Jackill, Iona Fyfe, Bemz and more. Black and white photograph of Vagrant Real Estate in checked shirt jacket standing in middle of empty Union Street with blurred buildings in background.

Aberdeen producer Vagrant Real Estate releases Neither Collar Nor Crown on St Andrew's Day, bringing 25 Scottish artists across genres and generations together.

Read our full piece on the ambitious album dropping this weekend.

⭕ New on POST
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Omfg

Congrats!!!

It's the anniversary of Section 28's demise. By me: "Section 28 was largely a creation of the right-wing press, and many of the people, publications and proprietors who contributed to the anti-gay panic back then are at the forefront of the anti-trans panic today."

We’re going to need a bigger little treat

Who Will Be Remembered Here - Queer Spaces in Scotland: Mae Diansangu, Louise Welsh, Lewis Hetherington with Carrie Marshall - Glasgow Life Aye Write 2025 presents Women Who Dared - From the Infamous to the Forgotten: Jo Shaw, Dr Chisomo Kalinga, Dr Ioulia Kolovou, Margot McCuaig

Excited about the return of Aye Write Book Festival to Glasgow & delighted to be taking part in Who Will Be Remembered Here - Queer Spaces in Scotland: Mae Diansangu, Louise Welsh, Lewis Hetherington with Carrie Marshall - Glasgow Life share.google/lBEUQpOp8y1Q...

Remember the veil between the dead and the living is at its thinnest tonight so it’s your perfect opportunity to call Cilla Black a cunt.

Carrie’s hand holding the book Who Will Be Remembered Here: Queer Spaces in Scotland

This is a wonderful book that’s full of surprises, a real inhale-in-one-go collection (I’m not just saying this because I’m hosting three of the brilliant contributors at Aye Write next weekend. That’s just a bonus). Powerful, resonant, sometimes laugh-out-loud funny.

Writer pals! just a wee reminder to join ALCS if you haven't already, and to make sure they have details of your print publications by the end of november - 30/11 is the cut-off for the next royalty payments in March.

www.alcs.co.uk

A photo of Jeda holding 4 copies of the book, North Bridge: Where We Travelled. She is smiling and wearing a patterned jumper and headband. Her hair is tied up. The book has an illustration of the bridge on it.

Proud book mama stylee! 😁🥹 Three sleeps to launch! Come and meet our amazing contributors on Saturday, and hear poems, real-life and invented stories, a script and a game.

🎫 www.tickettailor.com/events/jedap...

White background with purple abstract human shapes in welcoming poses, with the headline Aberdeen welcomes refugees, not racism! Further text: Stand up to racist bullies with music, colourful banners and messages of hope. All welcome. Saturday 25 October, 4pm, Patio Hotel, 213 Links Road, AB24 5EF (also called Doubletree Hotel, off Beach Blvd). Logos for CND, SPSC, Aberdeen Anti-Fascist Alliance, Aberdeen Trade Union Council, Stand Up To Racism and Aberdeen Social Centre.

Bring your vuvuzelas!

Aberdeen welcomes refugees, not racism! Stand up to racist bullies with music, colourful banners and messages of hope. All welcome. Saturday 25 October, 4pm, Patio Hotel, 213 Links Road, AB24 5EF (also called Doubletree Hotel, off Beach Blvd).

Writing Queer Sex and Kink Explore the queer possibilities of sex and kink in writing

Glasgow people! I am running a second Queer Sex and Kink-themed writing workshop at Burning House Books in November! ⛓️💦

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1841349789...

picture of a drill that says THIS IS NOT A DRILL! NEW MAGRITTE EXHIBIT OPENING!

Which type of gay are you? Lady Marmalade, Cell Block Tango or Read U Wrote U?

those are my emotional support em dashes and you will be prising them from my dead hands!!

It really is such a treat when I get to take part in very cool bookish events with very cool bookish people 💜

All the plants I have half-grown by Linden K McMahon (Stewed Rhubarb, 2024)

From the inevitable anxiety of ecological crisis, the ecopoems in All the plants I have half-grown follow the strange, uncomfortable, glorious, glittering threads that link us to our ecologies, …

Donate to My Father's Fight Against Stage 4 Cancer, organized by Sonali Misra Hi, my name is Sonali, a resident of the UK, and I'm fundraising for my father's… Sonali Misra needs your support for My Father's Fight Against Stage 4 Cancer

If you're looking for a good deed to do today, maybe spare some pennies here if you can:

www.gofundme.com/f/my-fathers...

Publicity shot for a stage production of 'The Wizard of Oz', 1902. Arthur Hill as the Lion and Anna Laughlin as Dorothy

Oh, Fiona, so sorry for your loss. Sending you lots of love 💜